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Copyright © Summersdale Publishers Ltd 1998

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced by any means, nor transmitted, nor translated

into a machine language, without the written permission of the publisher.

Summersdale Publishers Ltd

46 West Street

Chichester

West Sussex

PO19 1RP

UK

Printed and bound in Great Britain

ISBN 184024 053 9

Jacket by Java Jive Design, Chichester.

Acknowledgements

Letters still in copyright are taken from the following sources and

reprinted by the kind permission of the following publishers,

individuals and organisations:

Everyman Library (p.103) from The Paston Letters

A. P. Watt Ltd on behalf of Sophie Partridge and the Garnet Estate

(p.113) Carrington - Letters and Extracts from her Diary

John Murray (p.111) from a letter by Byron.

Contents

Romantic Verse..............................................5
Romantic Prose...............................................17
Romantic One-liners.......................................33
Romantic Symbols..........................................57

- Fruit & Vegetables....................................58
- Flowers & Plants.......................................65
- Animals, Birds & Fish..............................70
- Jewels & Jewellery......................................77
- Other Romantic Symbols...........................82

Food of Love..................................................89
Love Letters....................................................101
Romance in Myth and Legend........................117
Romance in the Skies......................................135
Romance in your Stars..................................147

Romanticism is the art of presenting people
with the Literary works which are capable of
affording them the greatest possible pleasure,
in the present state of their customs and
beliefs.

Henri Beyle called Stendhal

Romantic Verse

6

The Romance Book

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height,
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise;
I love thee with passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,- I love thee with breadth,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold,
Or all the riches that the east doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold repay.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere,
That when we live no more, we may live ever.

Ann Bradstreet

Romantic Verse

8

The Romance Book

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven and gaudy day denies.

Lord Byron

9

Though weary, love is not tired;
Though pressed, it is not straitened;
Though alarmed, it is not confounded,
Love securely passes through all.

Thomas A. Kempis

Romantic Verse

10

The Romance Book

All love, at first, like generous wine,
Ferments and frets until ’tis fine,
But, when ’tis settled on the lee,
And from th’ impurer matter free,
Becomes the richer still the older,
And proves the pleasanter the colder.

Samuel Butler

11

Deare, when I from thee am gone,
Gone are all my joyes at once;
I loved thee, and thee alone,
In whose love I joyed once.
And although your sights I leave,
Sight wherein my joyes do lie,
Till that death do sense bereave,
Never shall affection die.

John Dowland

Romantic Verse

12

The Romance Book

Through all Eternity to thee
A joyful song I’ll raise,
For oh! Eternity’s too short
To utter all thy Praise.

Joseph Addison

13

Never so happily in one
Did heaven and earth combine;
And yet ’tis flesh and blood alone
That makes her so divine.

Thomas D’Urfey

Romantic Verse

14

The Romance Book

O, my luve’s like a red red rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my luve’s like a melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.

Robert Burns

15

I love thee, I love thee,
’Tis all that I can say;
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.

Thomas Hood

Romantic Verse

16

The Romance Book

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called.

William Shakespeare

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